I Am Not One For Half Measures

I Am Excited About Focusing Full-time On Talking About My Job-creation Agenda And Building A New Economy For Washington State. We Have A Great Chance To Seize Our Own Destiny, Build Our Own Industries, And Create Our Own Technological Revolutions Right Here At Home.

With Millions Of Family Wage Manufacturing Jobs Lost Since 2001, We Need An Energy Bill That Takes Bold Action To Tap Into American Ingenuity In Order To Lead The World In New Clean Energy Technology, Rather Than Playing Catch-up To The Japanese, Danish, And Germans.

Not Wasting Energy. It Is The Least Sexy, But The Single Most Important And Always The Least Expensive. You Would Be Very Interested In A Report By The Mckinsey Consulting Firm That Concluded That 40 Percent Of Everything That We Have To Do To Mitigate Our Emissions Are Net Economic Winners. They Are Cost Effective And The Most Cost Effective Is Not Wasting Energy. That's Actually Going To Be The Largest Part Of This Whole Journey, I Believe - Using Less Energy With The Same Beneficial Results.

The 1st Congressional District Contains Almost Half Of The Biotech And Biomedical Companies In Washington, And My Job Often Allows Me To Meet The People Responsible For This Exciting Research.

We Had Some Major Successes And We Did So Because The Country Embraced The Spirit Of Earth Day And Embraced This Concept That We Have To Have Forward-looking, Visionary Environmental Policy And Energy Policy In This Country.